Leadership Qualities Quotes

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.

Stalin is too coarse, and this fault, though tolerable in dealings among us Communists, becomes unbearable in a General Secretary. Therefore I propose to the comrades to find some way of removing Stalin from his position and appointing somebody else who differs in all respects from Comrade Stalin in one characteristic-namely, someone more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and considerate to his comrades, less capricious, etc.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

If you want to be President, you'll have to remain poor.

Leaders are made, they are not born

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

He is a butcher, and is not fit to be at the head of an army.

It is fine that General MacArthur is arrogant and stubborn. An arrogant and stubborn enemy is easier to defeat.

To be a leader, you have to travel through the entire length and breadth of the country.

I am going to be prime minister.

I concluded that Donald Trump lacked the temperament, the judgment and the self-discipline to heal the divisions in our country - which are very real - and to be commander in chief.

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

I'm not going to advocate for a female leader who I'm voting for solely on the basis of gender. And I think a lot of people feel that way.